Tuesday, July 31, 2018

July 2018Demolition has finished. The site is clear. Note the proximity to North Port Oval with the Norm Goss stand clearly in view.

May 2018
Deconstruction of the buildings continues behind these hoardings.

March 2018Demolition of the buildings on site has begun.December 2017Approval was sought for an amendment to the permit to allow for a five level building with 15 apartments and 17 x three storey townhouses.June 2017
Marketing has begun for The Standard "Townhomes and Boutique apartments". Front row seats for the Football at North Port Oval - surprisingly not mentioned in the many locational advantages in the promotional material.

June 2017

The Standard will be made up of 17 three bedroom townhouses, and 15 one and two bedroom apartments.

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

July 2018
The permit for this site has been amended to include an AC Marriott Hotel. It will also include a reduced number of apartments - 111. (source: AFR, July 9 2018)June 2018199-201 Normanby Rd, formerly a scrap metal merchant, is becoming Normanby. Marketing has begun. NormanbyMelbourne.com.au
Note the Gravity Tower to the rear and right of the photograph and 'cash for scrap' indicating the site's former use as a scrap metal recycling facility.

June 2018

November 2017

Capital Alliance purchased the site from the scrap metal dealer for $13.5m in November 2017, $11 psm.

Permit 2013/009628 was issued by Planning Minister Matthew Guy on 1 September 2014.

Height 121mLevels 40 levelsArchitect DKO Architecture

November 2015

On the move again. The scrap metal merchant's premises are for sale.

November 2015

September 2014Planning permit was issued by Planning Minister Matthew Guy on 1 September 2014.

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

October 2017Part demolition of the rear of 275 Princes St is underway. The front rooms of the house will be retained.

October 2017

Look at those bricks - October 2017

Planning mattersThe City of Port Phillip approved application 112/2016 for 'part demolition; alterations and additions including a two-storey addition to rear of the existing dwelling and the construction of a new front fence' on 8 June 2017. The decision was appealed to VCAT which approved the application on 26 September 2017.25 September 2016
Looking sad. Weeds in the clever garden beds on top of the wall admired a year or so ago.
Apparently terminal decline while planning matters are being resolved.

October 2013
The house was sold on 5 October 2013 for $760,000. (source Buxton)

Two disappearing features of houses - the Hills Hoist and the sleepout.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

23 June 2018
Launch party for Tower 1, Fifteen85. A heavy emphasis on dogs - canine wellbeing, dog minding, dog grooming.For people, there were crepes, hotdogs and fairtrade coffee.
The burger people had reportedly crashed into the Montague Bridge.

June 2018Fifteen85
A sales office has opened on site with Tower 1 (of 3) to launch on 23 June. Elenberg Fraser are now the architects and the development is branded as Fifteen85. It has a new address 85 Gladstone Street.

The final approval was for three towers, rather than the four originally approved.

Tower 1 is the western most of the 3 towers and will contain 222 apartments. The podium level will be ' laden with greenery'.

The developer is CEL Australia.

December 2017
The site was sold by Colliers International on 4 December 2017. Among the attributes of the site, Colliers listed

Enormous site area of 9,356sqm

Three extensive street frontages

Flexible Capital City Zone 1

Recently approved permit allowing for a landmark, mixed use project designed by world renowned Fender Katsalidis

Directly adjacent to the new South Melbourne Park Primary School, and newly designated park

August 2017

An amended permit was subsequently issued on 29 August 2017

21 June 2016

Amended plans for the site were considered by the City of Port Phillip. While the Council had no issue with changing the architect to Fender Katsalidis, he Council advised DEWLP that it did not support changes which included

reduced tower separation distances

reduced setbacks to Kerr and Buckhurst Sts

increasing the heights of towers 2 and 3 to 30 levels so that all four towers will be the same height

November 2014
On 29 November, a Labor government was elected with Daniel Andrews as Premier. Richard Wynne became the planning minister.September 2014
Ministerial permit 2013/005499 was issued on 1 September 2014. The permit provides for a north-south link through the site, consistent podium heights and a reduction in height for the towers to 30 storeys.

4 June 2013

Marc Pallisco, the Age, reported on Saturday 1 June that Carlins has lodged an application for a staged development of 4 towers, the tallest of which will be 38 storeys, for their massive site on Buckhurst St.

The proposed development includes 1,023 flats.

The application, lodged on 27 May 2013, is listed on the Minister's Planning Permit register with scant further information at this time.

The site is large, 9,356 sqm and Buckhurst St is very wide. In the City of Port Phillip's plan for the suburb, Buckhurst was envisaged as the main street and community heart of Montague.

A different future to that imagined by Port Phillip is now unfolding, but at this time there is no clarity as to how such large developments will deliver any community benefit.

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Port Melbourne has a great diversity of housing from different periods. Port Houses takes an interest in dwellings of all kinds as well as debates about planning in Port Melbourne and environs.

Janet Bolitho is immersed in Port Melbourne's history, present and thinking about its future.

Janet is a community member of the Fishermans Bend Ministerial Advisory Committee and active member of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.

She has a Masters in planning from RMIT, a background in history studies and a period from 2004 to 2012 as Sandridge Ward Councillor on the Port Phillip Council. She was Mayor of the City of Port Phillip in 2006 and 2007.

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